Famously, Warren Buffett has had great success picking the corporate winners over the years.
"We're now working very hard to develop in the US, where we've already had some success picking up big-name clients such as Verizon".
Much of that could comfortably apply to Matilda, Minchin's debut musical, co-written with playwright Dennis Kelly, which has gone on to worldwide success, picking up a record-breaking seven Olivier awards in 2011 and a further four Tonys last year.
Tom Ortenberg and Mark Urman, co-presidents of Lions Gate Films, said they had continued to have success picking up films in Toronto in recent years ("The Big Kahuna" last year, "The Red Violin" the year before) and hoped to buy more this year.
Mr Roth fell down twice in the final months of campaigning, once in view of the TV cameras.Republicans, too, had their successes, picking up Senate seats in Nevada and Virginia and holding on to other western states, such as Montana, that had seemed in jeopardy.
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The key to her success in picking stocks, she always felt, was extensive research.
Mr. Pataki has demonstrated unambiguous success in picking up support among the Democratic coalition.
Meanwhile, his success in picking lucrative stocks was building his confidence.
The party is hoping to take a shortcut to success by picking Mr Crist as its candidate.
